Random thoughts on life
It feels like almost an annual event when I shuffle around the browsers I’m using, but I’m sure it’s not that often. None-the-less, Safari has, again, forced my hand,
A few years ago I was having some odd issues with Safari, my usual browser of choice, which forced me away from it until, many months later, they seemed to resolve themselves. Now, though, an issue that I absolutely cannot find a fix for me, has me re-evaluate again.
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For years now I’ve had a low opinion of Google products, particularly their hardware. Since taking over Nest, their poor treatment of customers have infected them too. Which is a shame, as I have a houseful of their products.
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If you have a Lumie Bodyclock (essentially a bedside clock with light therapy built-in), then it defaults to a 24 hour clock. There’s nothing in the manual about switching this to a 12 hour display, but look carefully at the unlit parts of the LCD display and you’ll see AM and PM indicators lurking.
So can it be done?
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2 years ago I wrote an article at work about aphantasia and how it affected me. People found it helpful and at least one person had the realisation as a result that they had it too. However, I’ve been reluctant to publish it externally, for the simple reason that I’m no medical expert, and all of this is based on my limited knowledge of the subject but, particularly, how it affects me, especially considering that how it affects me will be different for others.
Never-the-less, I’ve decided to do so, albeit edited for a different audience and brought up to date with more recent notes from myself.
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I got mentioned in this week’s PC Pro podcast far too much.
As usual, the live recording was accompanied by live chat in Discord and one of the subjects was AI being used to write code. I had views. And many of them got repeated on the podcast, albeit mostly those that were presenting an alternative view to the presenter’s own rose-tinted views.
But I want to clarify some things.
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